As Lead Business Analyst and Product Discovery Lead, you will turn complex business needs into clear, valuable and testable product work. You will lead discovery, challenge assumptions, align stakeholders and help autonomous squads understand the outcomes they must deliver.
You will be embedded in Product & Engineering and work across business analysis, product discovery and delivery preparation. You will establish analysis standards, support other analysts and collaborate closely with Squad Leads, developers, Quality Assurance, program management and business stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Lead product discovery and business analysis for complex digital products, workflows and transformation initiatives.
- Plan and facilitate interviews, workshops and collaborative discovery sessions with business, customer and technology stakeholders.
- Elicit, analyze and challenge requirements, assumptions, constraints, risks and dependencies before work enters delivery.
- Translate business outcomes into clear epics, features, user stories, process models, business rules and testable acceptance criteria.
- Brief squads, prepare work for sprint planning and support refinement, estimation and prioritization.
- Partner with Squad Leads and Quality Assurance to ensure acceptance criteria are understood, measurable and covered by an appropriate validation approach.
- Take responsibility for testing readiness and coordinate with the Quality Assurance Lead to define test scenarios, support execution, review results and ensure identified defects are addressed.
- Validate delivered outcomes with stakeholders and feed findings, defects and recurring operational issues back into the product backlog.
- Map current and future-state processes and identify opportunities for simplification, automation, responsible AI use and data-driven decisions.
- Establish reusable templates, quality standards and working practices for business analysis and product discovery.